Fri May 6, 2011 4:31AM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prior to a UN meeting to discuss an independent Palestinian state, the Israeli prime minister says Tel Aviv would not accept a UN “diktat” to resolve the dispute with the Palestinians. In a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Benjamin Netanyahu said regional peace can […]

Friday May 06, 2011 22:48 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies A group of extremist Israeli youths, members of the outlawed Kach Movement, tried to prevent Palestinian nonviolent resistance leader, Abdullah Abu Rahma, from speaking at a forum in Paris, by creating chaos, acting in a violent way and trying to physically attack him. […]

Jews for Justice for Palestinians | May 6, 2011 Palestinian Unity and the New Middle East ‘Egypt is charting a new course in its foreign policy’. (Aljazeera) By Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Hamas-Fatah deal in Cairo was both swift and predictable. “The Palestinian Authority must choose either peace with […]

Israel’s “lawfare” against the Palestinian people is rooted in a ficticious narrative of having a “right” to exist. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 06 May 2011 12:48 | – Opinion – Al Jazeera English Israel’s entire basis for beginning negotiations lies in the false premise that it has a “right” to exist [GALLO/GETTY] The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, now entering […]

06/05/2011 21:01 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Hamas flags are flying across the West Bank for the first time in years. Palestinians rallied Friday to celebrate last week’s signing in Cairo of a reconciliation agreement by Hamas and Fatah. The unity deal ended years of hostility, during which the Hamas-run government in Gaza and the Fatah-led Palestinian […]

Jews for Justice for Palestinians | May 6, 2011 UK-Israel rift over Hamas unity deal May 5, 2011 Jewish Chronicle A serious rift between the British and Israeli governments opened up this week during the visit of Binyamin Netanyahu to London, over the welcome given by David Cameron to the unity deal between Fatah and […]

Friday, 06 May 2011 17:30| MEMO A Palestinian youth group has launched a campaign aimed at protecting the Palestinian national reconciliation agreement signed in Cairo on Wednesday, May 4th, during a ceremony attended by all Palestinian factions. The campaign organizers have said that they decided to form the ‘Coalition for the Protection of the Reconciliation’ […]

Friday, May 6 2011| Dimi Reider | +972 Magazine Today marks the shloshim (30 days) from the funeral of Juliano Mer-Khamis. Below are some reflections written on the day of the funeral itself. ‪ Juliano Mer Khamis’s presence was unmistakable, yet he was extraordinarily difficult to place. The son of a Jewish Israeli mother and […]

[ 06/05/2011 – 06:09 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation security men raided the Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisee mosque in Wadi al-Jouz suburb of occupied Jerusalem and arrested Wael al-Hadini and Mazen al-Zein on the charge that they were violating an order by the occupation internal security minister stipulating the closure of the building. Local […]

[ 06/05/2011 – 06:53 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– IOF troops arrested on Friday morning Sheikh Bassam al-Saadi, member of the political leadership of the Islamic Jihad, who was released from Israeli occupation jails only two months ago, along with four others from the Jenin refugee camp and the village of Silet al-Hartheyyah in the northern […]

Rami Almeghari | The Electronic Intifada | Gaza City |6 May 2011 Palestinians celebrate the signing of a national reconciliation deal, Gaza City, 4 May 2011. ( ZUMA Press/Newscom ) “We have been expecting this day for the past four years now,” said 42-year-old Ahmad Kabaja in Gaza City’s Square of the Unknown Soldier on Wednesday. He […]

May 6, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians celebrated national unity at anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank on Friday. Protesters in Al-Ma’sara and Bil’in carried coffins to symbolize the death of the division, after Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo last week. In Bil’in, near Ramallah, two villagers dressed as […]

Friday May 06, 2011 11:16 by Kevin Murphy – International Middle East Media Center The US, Italy, Britain and France have refused to rule out negotiations with the unity Hamas-Fatah government despite intensive lobbying by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Representatives of the respective governments declined to reject the unity deal between Fatah and Hamas as […]

[ 06/05/2011 – 02:49 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Thousands of jubilant Hamas supporters demonstrated in the northern West Bank city of Nablus Thursday in support of the Palestinian reconciliation that Hamas and Fatah signed in Cairo a couple of days ago. The demonstration of Hamas was the first ever in four years as the Movement […]